Yes, My Mother's Anti-Semitic — But She's Still Mom

From the Seesaw at The Jewish Daily Forward

My Mother is Anti-Semitic and My Jewish Husband Wants Her Out of My Life

I am a non-Jewish woman who has been married to a Jewish man for 39 years. We have had no problem supporting one another faith-wise — I have gone to temple and he has come to church — but we do have ongoing issues with our parents. My parents are German. My father, who died ten years ago, was raised here and my mother was raised in Nazi Germany.

Growing up she would tell me about how Jews were the cause of all Germany’s troubles, as well as how Jews are cheap, cheaters, liars, and more. Also, she claims that people in her town had no idea what was going on during World War II, something that drives my history buff husband crazy and he says isn’t really possible. I told my husband he no longer had to speak to my mother and in the past nine years they have had no contact.

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